Nurses complete workshop on ethics, legal issues
Two hundred and thirty-six nurses and midwives drawn from hospitals, clinics, nursing and midwifery training schools in the Brong Ahafo Region have completed a two-day workshop on ethics and legal issues in the out-patients department and ward management.
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The workshop was also to update the knowledge and sharpen the skills of nurses and midwives for effective and efficient service delivery at their workplaces.
The workshop, organised by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana, was pursuant to its mandate of ensuring continuing professional development of nurses and midwives in the country.
Objectives
The workshop was also to build the capacity of the health practitioners to become competent ward managers and to remind them of the special responsibility they assume when caring for the sick.
It was to also reorientate participants regarding their legal responsibilities in the practice of nursing and midwifery and equip them with skills relating to the art and science of supervision and delegation, as well as in professional self-regulation.
Addressing the closing ceremony, the Deputy Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Mr Justice Samuel Adjei, noted that it was a fact that quality nursing care was a prerequisite for improving the health status of the citizenry.
Health promotion
He said the government had always considered the health sector as very important for the country’s development, since the wealth of any nation truly depended on the health of its citizens.
“The government, in its bid to promote the health sector, has, therefore, put in measures such as the construction of health centres nationwide, provision of ambulances to health institutions, construction of maternity blocks and OPDs nationwide, provision of free antenatal care, sponsorship of trainee midwives and nurses and the establishment of midwifery and nursing schools to train more nurses and midwives for efficient healthcare delivery,” he added.
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The acting Registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, Mr Felix Nyante, advised the nurses and midwives to use the workshop to change the image of nursing and midwifery practice in the country.
“The standards of nursing and midwifery that we know is not what we see today in our wards,” he said.
Code of ethics
Mr Nyante said the code of ethics for nursing and midwifery practice stipulated that the practitioners’ first loyalty was to the client.
“This workshop is, therefore, intended to address the public outcry over the poor attitude of nurses towards their patients/clients by updating their knowledge and skills on the ethical and legal implications of their attitudes,” he added.
That, he said, would guarantee the highest quality of nursing and midwifery care to the public.